Every Awards & Honours current affair for government exams, organised by subtopic — 33 verified updates across 6 subtopics.
President Droupadi Murmu conferred the remaining Padma Awards at the second Civil Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. India announced 131 Padma Awards for 2026: 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.
President Droupadi Murmu presented Padma Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan, conferring 66 awards in the first phase (2 Padma Vibhushan, 6 Padma Bhushan, 58 Padma Shri). A total of 131 Padma Awards were announced for 2026.
Padma Shri honourees included cricketers Rohit Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur and hockey goalkeeper Savita Punia, among achievers across arts, science, medicine and social work.
The 13 Padma Bhushan awardees included singer Alka Yagnik, actor Mammootty, industrialist Uday Kotak, former Uttarakhand CM Bhagat Singh Koshyari and adman Piyush Pandey (posthumous).
The five Padma Vibhushan awardees included veteran actor Dharmendra (posthumous), former Kerala CM V.S. Achuthanandan (posthumous), classical violinist N. Rajam and former Supreme Court judge K.T. Thomas.
The Centre announced 131 Padma Awards - 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri - including 19 women, 16 posthumous awards and 6 from the Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI category.
Actor Mammootty and singer Alka Yagnik received the Padma Bhushan; cricketers Rohit Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur, hockey player Savita Punia, actor-filmmaker R. Madhavan and veteran actor Satish Shah were among Padma Shri honourees.
The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize - often called the 'Green Nobel' - honoured six grassroots environmental defenders from around the world for their community campaigns.
TIME's 2026 list featured three Indians: actor Ranbir Kapoor, chef Vikas Khanna and Google & Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, recognising influence across culture and technology.
On National Energy Conservation Day, the President felicitated the winners of the National Energy Conservation Awards (NECA) 2025, recognising efficiency across industries and institutions.
ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Goddard Astronautics Award at the ASCEND Conference in Washington DC, honouring the 2023 lunar south-pole soft landing.
CSIR received the Clarivate South Asia Innovation Award 2026 in the Government Sector category, recognising its patent and innovation output.
Germany's Gerd Faltings won the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry, resolving the Mordell and Lang conjectures. He is the first German Abel laureate; the prize carries 7.5 million Norwegian kroner.
The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic Clarke was named the 2026 Pritzker laureate - architecture's highest honour - becoming the second Chilean to win after Alejandro Aravena (2016).
President Murmu presented India's highest science honours to 24 awardees; the Vigyan Ratna (lifetime achievement) went posthumously to astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar and the Vigyan Team award to CSIR's Aroma Mission.
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis were honoured for the discovery of macroscopic quantum-mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
'Tides of Time: Bharat's History through Murals in Parliament', authored by Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty, was unveiled by Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan, chronicling India's civilisational journey through Parliament's murals.
The Tamil poet-lyricist R. Vairamuthu was named winner of the Jnanpith Award (for 2025), India's highest literary honour, chosen by a committee chaired by Pratibha Ray. He is the third Tamil writer to receive it.
Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan released 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Eternal Statesman', authored by Vijay Goel, at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.
Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan launched Dr Shashi Tharoor's book 'The Sage Who Reimagined Hinduism: The Life, Lessons & Legacy of Sree Narayana Guru' in New Delhi.
A book chronicling the life and journey of President Droupadi Murmu was released on 10 January 2026.
Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh released his new book 'Ghost-Eye', with the national tour beginning on 5 January 2026.
The Hungarian writer received the 2025 Literature Prize for his surreal, visionary novels combining a bleak worldview with dark humour.
Sadhvi Satish Sail from Goa was crowned the 61st Femina Miss India World 2026 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, and will represent India at the Miss World pageant.
The 98th Academy Awards introduced the Best Casting award, the first new Oscar category since Best Animated Feature (2001), won by Cassandra Kulukundis for 'One Battle After Another'.
Held at the Dolby Theatre and hosted by Conan O'Brien, 'One Battle After Another' won Best Picture (six awards) and Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director. Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor and Jessie Buckley Best Actress.
Held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, Paul Thomas Anderson's 'One Battle After Another' won six awards including Best Film; Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor and Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' won three.
Kendrick Lamar was the night's biggest winner with five awards, including Record of the Year, becoming the most-awarded hip-hop artist in Grammy history; Olivia Dean won Best New Artist.
At the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny won Album of the Year - the first primarily Spanish-language album to win the category. Trevor Noah hosted for the sixth and final time.
Held in Los Angeles and hosted by Nikki Glaser, 'One Battle After Another' won Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical), Best Director and Best Screenplay, while 'Hamnet' won Best Motion Picture (Drama).
India's highest disaster-management honour went to the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (institutional, Rs 51 lakh) and Lt Col Seeta Ashok Shelke (individual, Rs 5 lakh), announced on Parakram Diwas.
The Venezuelan opposition leader was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic rights and a peaceful transition; her daughter accepted the award at Oslo on her behalf.
The 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economic Sciences were presented at the Stockholm Concert Hall; 10 December marks the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.